「星の王子さま」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
The Little Prince
アントワーヌ・ド・サン＝テグジュペリが「星の王子さま」で何度も使う、英語の頻出4,000語に入らない40語です。先に覚えておくと、最初の章がずっと読みやすくなります。各単語に発音記号、意味、本文の例文をつけました。
prince/ˈpɹɪns/王子, 親王本文に184回
He has gone to sleep…” And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.
sheep/ˈʃip/羊本文に41回
It said: “If you please — draw me a sheep!”
geographer/dʒiˈɑɡɹəfɝ/地理学者本文に23回
“I am a geographer,” said the old gentleman.
baobabバオバブ樹本文に20回
It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
lamplighter/ˈɫæmˌpɫaɪtɝ/点灯夫本文に17回
There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter.
volcano/vɑɫˈkeɪnoʊ/火山本文に15回
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
sunset/ˈsənˌsɛt/日没, 日の入り本文に15回
Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life… For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.
tame/ˈteɪm/飼いならされた, 人になれた本文に14回
“I am not tamed.”
constrictor/kənˈstɹɪktɝ/獲物を締め殺す大蛇本文に13回
It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
thorn/ˈθɔɹn/とげ, 針本文に13回
“Even flowers that have thorns?”
explorer/ɪksˈpɫɔɹɝ/探検家本文に13回
Here is an explorer!”
conceited/kənˈsitəd/うぬぼれの強い本文に11回
The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man.
tippler飲んべえ, 飲んだくれ本文に10回
The next planet was inhabited by a tippler.
switchman転轍手 ポインツマン, ポイントマン本文に8回
“Good morning”, said the railway switchman.
yawn/ˈjɔn/あくびをする本文に8回
And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said: “Ah!
extinct/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/活動をやめた本文に8回
He also had one volcano that was extinct.
inhabit/ˌɪnˈhæbət/…に住む, 居る本文に8回
Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region.
magnificent/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/壮大な, 壮麗な本文に8回
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/住居本文に7回
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation.
pulley/ˈpʊɫi/滑車本文に7回
“Everything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket, the rope…” He laughed, touched the rope, and set the pulley to working.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/火をつけた本文に7回
And he lighted his lamp again.
globe/ˈɡɫoʊb/球形のガラス器本文に7回
… and added to himself, “This flower is a very complex creature…” “At night I want you to put me under a glass globe.
bushes/ˈbʊʃəz/低木本文に5回
“It is true, isn’t it, that sheep eat little bushes?”
muzzle/ˈməzəɫ/口輪, 口かせ本文に5回
I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep.
asteroid/ˈæstɝˌɔɪd/小惑星本文に5回
I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/に服従する本文に5回
… “if I ordered a general to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not obey me, that would not be the fault of the general.
butterfly/ˈbətɝˌfɫaɪ/チョウ本文に5回
Does he collect butterflies?”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/を邪魔をする, 妨害する本文に5回
Again the little prince disturbed my thoughts: “And you actually believe that the flowers — ” “Oh, no!”
pencil/ˈpɛnsəɫ/鉛筆本文に5回
And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/ゾウ本文に5回
It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/風変りな, 変な本文に4回
What a queer idea!”
thirst/ˈθɝst/のどの渇き, 渇本文に4回
And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear.
thirsty/ˈθɝsti/のどの渇いた本文に4回
“He has never been either hungry or thirsty.
salute/səˈɫut/…に敬礼する本文に4回
“It is to raise in salute when people acclaim me.
petal/ˈpɛtəɫ/花弁, 花びら本文に4回
They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/かろうじて, やっと本文に4回
It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/悲しみ, 悲哀, 悲嘆本文に4回
And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/叫ぶ本文に4回
Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”
cough/ˈkɑf/せきをする, せき払いする本文に4回
Embarrassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naïve untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
flush/ˈfɫəʃ/赤らむ, 赤面する本文に4回
And he flushed.
意味：EJDict-hand, English to Japanese (public domain) 発音記号：ipa-dict（MIT）、Wiktionaryより。
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